Question about email-handling modules

[Robert Latest]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> message['to'] looks up the key 'to', raising an exception if it doesn't 
> exist. message.get('to') looks up the key and returns a default value if 
> it doesn't exist.

Ah, so the [] notation got hung up on some message right at the beginning 
and didn't even let the script continue. Makes sense.

> All methods are attributes (although the opposite is not the case), so if 
> a method doesn't exist, you will get an AttributeError.

I see. I've already gathered that Python likes to use different words for 
common things (attribute instead of member or method).

> Damned if I can work out how to actually *use* the email module to read 
> an mbox mail box. I might have to RTFM :(

Yeah, I think I haven't picked the right module to get started with.

> But note that message.get_payload() will return either a string (for 
> single part emails) or a list of Messages (for multi-part messages).

Yes, I did note that.

Thanks for the tips (also to the others who have answered).

Python looks like fun though. Maybe I should try to tackle some other 
problem first.

robert